Author: Karen Armstrong<br />File Type: epub<br />bFrom the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religions connection to violence.bFor the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after September 11, 2001-that faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance, and divisiveness, something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? And does it apply equally to all faiths? In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence on mistaken understandings of the faiths around us, in our immediate community as well as globally. And so, with her deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in each of the worlds great religions. The comparative approach is new while there have been plenty of books on jihad or the Crusades, for example this one lays the Christian and the Islamic way of war side...